Revised Webster's Bible
Psalms 119:50
50This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me.
Psalms 119:50 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- New International Version (NIV)My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
Context of Psalms 119:50
48My hands also will I lift to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. 49Remember the word to thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet I have not declined from thy law. 52I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
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זֹ֣את נֶחָמָתִ֣י בְעָנְיִ֑י כִּ֖י אִמְרָתְךָ֣ חִיָּֽתְנִי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 119:50
- Psalms 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Psalms 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
- Psalms 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
- Jeremiah 15:16Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
- Romans 5:3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
- Romans 15:4For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- Hebrews 6:17In the same way God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Hebrews 12:11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
- Psalms 119:25My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.
- Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- James 1:18Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- 1 Peter 1:3Blessedbe the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 2:2As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that ye may grow by it:
Commentaries on Psalms 119:50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 50This is my comfort - While enduring our harsh captivity, we anticipated our enlargement; and thy word of promise was the means of keeping our souls alive.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 50This is my comfort in my affliction - Compare Romans 15:4. The word here rendered “comfort” occurs only here and in Job 6:10. The obvious meaning is, that his only consolation in his affliction was derived from the word of God; the word which had caused him to hope, and the word by which he had been quickened or made alive. The particular design of this is to show the value of the word of God as a source of comfort in trouble. For thy word hath quickened…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 49-56Verses 49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 49-56Zayin (ז) is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The psalmist asks God to remember his word as the psalmist also remembers God’s word and his name. Remembrance expresses devotion.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 49-5149-51. Resting on the promises consoles under affliction and the tauntings of the insolent. upon which--rather, "Remember Thy word unto Thy servant, because," &c. So the Hebrew requires [Hengstenberg].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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